Creating with Transdisciplinary Practices, Narrating through Material Structures,
Reducing hierarchy, Activating perception.
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Ioannis Panagiotou is a UK-based artist, composer and researcher. As an artist he explores transdisciplinarity by working with various media, materials and technologies. He is the creator of transdisciplinary performances, installations, video works, concert music (instrumental, electroacoustic, interactive) and music for media.
Works of him have been commissioned by the Dialogues Festival, PLUG Contemporary Music Festival, Greek National Opera, Audio Visual Arts Festival, St Andrews University and the Days of Electroacoustic Music and has been exhibited and performed in MIRY Concertzaal, MUSA Collection Centre, Vilniaus rotušė, Corfu's Museum of Asian Art and the Old Venetian Fortress among others. He has also collaborated with contemporary ensembles such as Plus-Minus Ensemble, Red Note, Edinburgh Quartet, Decoda, Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra, Edinburgh Contemporary Ensemble, St Andrews New Music Ensemble and Portativ Ensemble.
Ioannis is a PhD candidate in Transdisciplinary Arts at the University of Edinburgh where he explores the relation between Materialism, transdisciplinarity, narration and the society; proposing the concept of Material Structures. He is also a member of CIME-HELMCA and has worked as a researcher and tutor in Hybrid Arts at Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, as tutor in Composition and The Performing Arts at the Ionian University and tutor in Sculpture and Composition for Screen at The University of Edinburgh.
STUDIES
Ioannis has received a Master of Arts in Composition from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and an Integrated Master’s Degree from the Ionian University, where he studied Multimedia and Composition for Film, Theatre and the Performing Arts. He has studied Composition with Martin Parker, Simon Steen-Andersen, Juliana Hodkinson, Gareth Williams, David Fennessy, Oliver Searle and Dimitra Trypani, Sonic Arts and Interactive Composition with Alistair McDonald, Film Music with Yati Durant, Fine and Digital Arts with Kevin Dagg, Bill Psarras and Nikos Kokkalis and Byzantine Musicology with Dimitrios Giannelos.
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EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2021 Umwelt, performative video and sound installation, Plus-Minus Ensemble, Dialogues Festival, Edinburgh
2020 "PLAY ME", digital performance, Plus-Minus Ensemble, (1) ECA 2020 online show, UK (2) CIME-HELMCA Days of Electroacoustic Music 2020, Greece
2019 Metamorphosis, interactive, multichannel video and sound installation, Greek National Opera, Athens
2019 The Memory Passage, multichannel performative, video, smoke and sound installation, Dorothea Kalogianni (1) Edinburgh College of Art, UK / (2) CIME-HELMCA Days of Electroacoustic Music 2019, Athens Conservatory
2018 Fade Out, theatrical installation, (1) RCS Bridge Week Festival, Glasgow UK / (2) CIME-HELMCA Days of
Electroacoustic Music 2018, Corfu Greece
2017 The Box, sound and light installation, 11th Audiovisual Arts Festival, Museum of Asian Art, Corfu Greece
2016 What's in the Bag?, sound and light installation, 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival, Corfu's old Psychiatric
Clinic, Greece
2016 Glass-mash, performative installation, 10th Audiovisual Arts Festival, Corfu's old Psychiatric Clinic, Greece
PERFORMANCES
2021 Reading Glasses Story, for stop motion video and guitar duet, Vilniaus rotušė, Lithuania
2021 My Voice, for electric guitar and video, Dimitris Soukaras, London
2020 In - Between, for video, narrator and music ensemble, New Music Ensemble (live), Edinburgh Quartet
(tape), Dialogues Festival, Edinburgh
2020 Opus: An one act Opera, for soprano, baritone, piano and tablet, Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh
2020 Uncanny Walks, walking performance and photography, with 20 co-performers in the city of Mytilini,
Lesvos, GR
2019 Urban Whale, for tuba and live electronics, Alexander Gipson Opera Studio, Glasgow
2019 Proposal for a Dance Performance, for PowerPoint, tape and music ensemble, Rush Hour Ensemble, (1)
Dialogues Festival, Edinburgh / (2) Det Jytke Musikkonservatorium, Aarhus Denmark
2019 Strings in your Mouth, for amplified string quartet, Edinburgh Quartet, Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh
2018 Dimensional Mirrors, for three music ensembles, Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra, Reid Concert Hall,
Edinburgh UK
2018 Red Stone, for amplified music ensemble, Red Note Ensemble, RCS Music Lab, Glasgow
2018 Flyby, for music ensemble and tape, St Andrews Contemporary Music Ensemble, MUSA, St Andrews UK
2018 Silver Brown, for guitar duet, PLUG Contemporary Music Festival, Glasgow
2018 Ison, for Scottish harp and live electronics, PLUG Contemporary Music Festival, Glasgow UK
2018 For Future Reference, for 3 surround percussion set-ups, The New What Now, MIRY Concertzaal, Ghent
Belgium
2018 Made by the Ants, electroacoustic, Sonic Nights 3, Glasgow
2017 Boiler Room, electroacoustic, Sonic Nights 1, Glasgow
2017 Ithaki, site-specific interdisciplinary performance based on verbatim theatre, Corfu's old Fortress Greece
2016 Step 24, for solo flute, St George Church, Corfu Greece
2016 Allegory of the Cave, for narrator and music ensemble, Portative Ensemle, Ionian Academy, Corfu Greece
COLLABORATIONS
2020 Shoggoth, composer Aggelos Mastranotnis, visuals for music, Edinburgh
2019 Human at Heart, director: Alia-Lauren Clain, music for film, Glasgow
2018 Ko, music for contemporary ballet, choreographer: Louis Fukuhara Glasgow UK
2018 Flyby, artwork in collaboration with astronomers from St Andrews University, MUSA, St Andrews UK
2018 Tiny Dynamite, dierctor: Heather Knudtsen, music and sound design for theatre, The Chandler Studio
Theatre, Glasgow UK
2018 Everyday Physics (Καθημερινή Φυσική), music for animated documentaries, Athens & Ioannina Greece
2017 Surviving a long fall, scenic and light design for theatre, Polytechno, Corfu Greece
2016 Crime and Punishment, live music for the animation of Piotr Dumala, Ντουμπλάζ Fest, Polytechno, Corfu
2015 Seventh Seal, for SSAT choir, amplified ensemble and solo dance, Portativ Ensemble, Old Philarmonic
Society, Corfu Greece
PUBLICATIONS
2021 Panagiotou I.P. ‘Self-narrating through graphic media and notations’, MUSIC.OLOGY.ECA
2020 Panagiotou, Kalogianni, I.P. D.K. (2020) 'The Memory Passage', The Mass (April-DECOLONISE), p. 46
TALKS AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT EVENTS
2021 Performing in Transdisciplinary Environments (artist talk), Department of Performing and Digital Arts,
University of the Peloponnese
2019 History of Art and Transdisciplinary Arts (lecture and workshop), University of the Aegean, The
University of Edinburgh University, Det Jytke Musikkonservatorium
2019 Uncanny Walks, (performance with 20 co-performers for Lesvos refugees), University of the Aegean
2018 Sounding out Astronomy (lecture, concert and exhibition in collaboration with astronomers from St
Andrews University, St Andrews University Museum (MUSA collection Centre)
2018 Music and Narration (talks and concerts in collaboration with Red Note Ensemble), Oakwood and
Aultmore Park Primary Schools
2017 History of Art and City Culture (artist talk), Athens Money Show
2015 Contemporary choir workshop, 7th Primary School of Corfu.
2011 Solo piano performance (concerts in collaboration with Model Secondary Schools educators), Athens
University History Museum
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